Cave Mountain: A Disappearance and a Reckoning in the Ozarks Benjamin Hale “What began with their frantic shouting eventually became the largest search-and-rescue mission in Arkansas history.” In 2001, Haley Zega disappeared while hiking with her grandparents in the Ozark Mountains. Her encounter with a ghostly apparition dredges up dark memories of another young child,…
What I read: September 2026
How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind Regan Penaluna “Not to be confused with the male gaze, which objectifies women’s bodies, the male glance does the opposite to women’s creative work: it barely gives it a second look. Those under its spell…
What I read: August 2026
The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean Susan Casey “Now it’s apparent that nature runs as a massively interconnected system, with the deep sea as its motherboard. Yet even as we tinker with the machinery in potentially irreversible ways, we have only the foggiest notion of how it all works.” For most of…
What I read: July 2026
July was tough. My reading didn’t really suffer, but I didn’t have the mental space to think through reviews. This month is also unique because every book came from the library. I’m so glad to have access to this precious public resource. Relic Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child “Then he noticed that the rain forest,…
4 books that changed my life
Many readers use books to mark significant points in their lives: the first book they read, the first time they experienced the genre they consider their favorite, the book that broke (or healed) their heart. Sometimes they’re books everyone has read, and sometimes they’re so obscure it’s a miracle they made it to a shelf….